Author: COLGRAVE, BERTRAM &, R. A. B. MYNORS (EDITORS)
Title: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Description: Oxford University Press, 1969.. Edited with a facing-page translation of the Latin text by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors. Reprint 1972 of the first edition of 1969 LXVI + 618 p., bibliography, index HARDCOVER: (Orig. blue clotth with gilt. title. VERY GOOD ? AS NEW) ¶ Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors's edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad and provided a survey of the extant manuscripts and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer's invaluable edition. With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede

Keywords: Europe Saxon England Religion History


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